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Awesome Resources for Learning Salesforce Lightning
At Dreamforce 2014, Salesforce announced they were changing the Salesforce User Interface to make it simpler to use. The new User Interface…
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Using Promises in Salesforce Lightning
It’s no secret that Salesforce Lightning is changing the way we develop for Salesforce. At Dreamforce 2014, Salesforce introduced Salesforce Lightning and…
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What is a Self Invoking Function
In JavaScript, it’s common to hear lots of strange terminology without a lot of description around what it is or what it…
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Why JavaScript
In the earlier days of the web, there was a battle between two scripting languages VBScript and JavaScript. VBScript, thankfully, eventually died…
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How to Use Reduce on JavaScript Arrays
In functional programming, being able to reduce is one of the fundamental concepts. Reduce is used to iterate through the values in…
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Detecting Inactivity in JavaScript
In a lot of web applications, it can be really useful to detect whether the user is still active or not. For…
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How to merge Objects together in JavaScript
Merging objects together in JavaScript isn’t very difficult although there’s quite a few different ways that it can be done. Note, I’m…
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How to get the URL Parameters in JavaScript
It’s no secret that JavaScript is now all around us, most html forms are using JavaScript for validation and of course there’s…
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5 Resources for Learning JavaScript
Traditionally when somebody said JavaScript, they were talking about a language that just did stuff on the client side like form validation…
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Salesforce Developers Need to Learn JavaScript Today
Over the years, it’s been possible for Salesforcce Developers to avoid needing to learn JavaScript because things could usually be done through…
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Avoiding Globals in JavaScript
JavaScript uses functions as the primary way to define scope any variable defined inside of a function is in the local scope. A variable defined outside of a function is in the global scope.
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Node.js & Environment Variables
Environment variables, also known as env, allow us to have applications we build behave differently based on the environment that they are running in. Well designed applications use environment variables and allow us to rapidly deploy to new environments.
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Sorting Elements in an Array Alphabetically in JavaScript
There's a lot of reasons why you may want to sort an array, often it is done to make things easier for the user of the application to understand the data. Arrays are normally sorted to be in ascending order (or alphabetical).
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Recreating PHP’s time() function in JavaScript
PHP's time() function returns the current unix timestamp. JavaScript doesn't exactly have the same functionality, but it's pretty close. Put a different and more understandable way, it returns the current time measured in seconds since the Unix Epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970). JavaScript has a similar way of getting the time but it's in milliseconds since the Unix Epoch.
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JavaScript IsNumeric Function
In the past, there’s been so many times I needed to tell if an object was numeric. With the below function, it’s…
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Dealing With Dates in JavaScript
Dates and DateTimes are difficult to deal with in most languages. The Date object is a datatype that’s built in the JavaScript…
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Disabling Caching on All AJAX in jQuery
It’s no secret that many of us that use javascript regularly love jQuery because it handles a lot of the cross browser…
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How to Add CSS & JavaScript to a Magento CMS Page
Magento is an insanely flexible system that has a lot of potential, but of course with this flexibility comes a lot of…
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jQuery Mobile: Page Blank
jQuery Mobile is an absolutely amazing javascript framework that can easily assist developing mobile friendly websites. jQuery Mobile is easily summarized by…
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